A ROMAN SILVER BOWL Circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D. The shallow bowl lathe-turned, on a disk foot, the underside centered by a dotted ring, the rim slightly splayed and finished with a beaded edge and a band of lesbian kymation, with two separately-cast and slightly up-turned crescentic handles with some openwork, decorated by acanthus-scroll and foliate ornament in relief, and a duck head at each end, the underside with bifurcated supports each with a leaf-shaped terminal 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm) wide
A ROMAN SILVER BOWL Circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D. The shallow bowl lathe-turned, on a disk foot, the underside centered by a dotted ring, the rim slightly splayed and finished with a beaded edge and a band of lesbian kymation, with two separately-cast and slightly up-turned crescentic handles with some openwork, decorated by acanthus-scroll and foliate ornament in relief, and a duck head at each end, the underside with bifurcated supports each with a leaf-shaped terminal 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm) wide
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